St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1802. First and only edition of the first primer of the Tatar language in the Russian empire. The first primer of the Tatar language, compiled by a native Siberian Tatar under the direction of Iosif Ivanovich Giganov 1764-1800?), a priest and teacher at the..... Read More about Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskago pis'ma. [Primer of Tatar and Arabic

London: Thos. McLean, June 2, 1834-1835. Reeve, R.G. First edition. 1. "The Disappointment or Retreat in a Shower---Gallantry at a Discount..." March 2nd, 1835. 26 Haymarket. R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 2. A Frost. March 2nd 1835. . R.G. Reeve Sculpt. 3. "Repose in the Mail." March 2nd 1835. R.G. Reeve Sculpt..... Read More about Incidents in Travelling

Annapolis: Jonas Green, 1755. Recruiting for Braddock's Campaign. Passed in December 1754 "to raise a Body of able Land-men, for his Majesty's Service, against the French and their Allies on this Continent", this separately-printed session law essentially authorizes a draft system for forcing "all and every able-bodied Freeman who live..... Read More about Act of Assembly passed in December, 1754. At a session of Assembly, begun and held at the city of...

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1919. First edition. Foundations of Rocketry and Space Flight. One of the earliest publications on rocketry and space flight, and "the most influential and important of Goddard’s scientific papers ... The short treatise offered detailed mathematical proof that solid propellant rockets were capable of boosting modest..... Read More about A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes

New York: Published for the Booksellers, 1841. First edition. The Second Wall Street Novel – Rare. A very early — in fact, the second — Wall Street novel about a young broker who fails on the street. It explains all the chicanery, stock manipulation, scams and even a faked panic..... Read More about A Week in Wall Street. By One Who Knows

Tokyo: Bokujo Koizumi, 1906. Second edition, following the 1905-1906 2 volume edition with hand-coloured plates. Very uncommom in any edition. Read More about The Scenerys and Customs of Japan [Sikishima bikan

New York: B.C. Forbes Publishing Company, (1934). First edition. First edition in scarce dust-jacket of the follow-up to the author's Stock Market Theory and Practice. "One of the early interpreters of the Dow Theory, editor of Forbes Magazine, Schabacker is the only author credited in the chartist's bible, Technical Analysis..... Read More about Stock Market Profits

Lexington, KY: James E. Hughes, 1902. Inscribed by Stanton. Inscribed on the inside upper wrapper: "Miss Alice E. Ives. With the compliments of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 250 West 94th St. New York. Sept. 14, 1902. Read & ponder the tyranny of the church & how it has degraded women." The..... Read More about Woman and Her Relation to the Church

Bournemouth: 16 March 1887. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) and his wife Fanny lived in Bournemouth from 1884 through August 1887, at first in rented lodgings and from April 1885 at Skerryvore, named after one of Alan Stevenson’s lighthouses and which Thomas Stevenson bought as a wedding gift for Fanny. An..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Your afft cousin, Robert Louis Stevenson”) to “Janey” (Jane ,...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First American edition (preceding the first English edition by 25 years). INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the first blank, “Given under my hand at Saranac Lake in the year eighteen hundred and eighty eight Robert Louis Stevenson” Stevenson’s biography of Professor Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, the..... Read More about Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

[Davos, Switzerland: n.d., 1880]. First edition, one of a few copies printed. A fugitive item in the bibliography of Robert Louis Stevenson, a poem printed on a toy press in Davos by Lloyd Osbourne, the twelve-year-old son of Fanny Stevenson. Hart suggests that it "may have been the very first..... Read More about A Martial Elegy for some Lead Soldiers

Bronx: July 14, 1974. In full: "Before leaving U.S. I just want to thank you for all the concern you have for the poor of the world, and also for all you are anxious to do for them. I will prey for you and yours, that He may always be..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed ("M. Teresa M.C."), to Robert MacNamara, thanking him...